Jul 19, 2025 9:44 am
I went to staging, checked the root forum as read and then tried to experiment.
Posting in my game has shown no strange behaviour whatsoever - it seems to update read/unread correctly on both forums and the main page.
For public ones, though...
Visiting the Testing needed: Forum speedups on staging thread from the main page opened it on the first page and then marked the thread unread on both the main page and the forums. Doing it again opened the thread on the second (and last) page and marked it read everywhere. Revisiting it again led to no weird behaviour, it remained read as intended.
Visiting [CLOSED] D&D5 Classic module conversion: N1 opened the thread on the first page and then caused three threads (this one and two other from the main page) all get marked unread on the main page. However, on the forums only this specific thread became unread, the other two didn't. Revisiting it opened the thread on the second page and didn't mark it as read. From then on, each revisit opened a new page. Upon opening the last one, all threads on the main page became read.
Visiting Interest Check: Mage 20 led to the exact effect as above with D&D, complete with the exact same three threads becoming unread on the main page.
However, Interest Check: Sentai & Sensibility (SWADE), the third of the threads which switch between read/unread as described above, doesn't cause similar problems. I believe that is because it only has one page, unlike the other two.
Finally, the last public thread on my main page, Hello - GM Looking to Play, causes no weird results whatsoever.
From all this, I'm starting to think that this is exclusively multi-page threads which cause weirdness. At least for myself. (Although Sentai one flipping because of the other two is kinda weird.)
Posting in my game has shown no strange behaviour whatsoever - it seems to update read/unread correctly on both forums and the main page.
For public ones, though...
Visiting the Testing needed: Forum speedups on staging thread from the main page opened it on the first page and then marked the thread unread on both the main page and the forums. Doing it again opened the thread on the second (and last) page and marked it read everywhere. Revisiting it again led to no weird behaviour, it remained read as intended.
Visiting [CLOSED] D&D5 Classic module conversion: N1 opened the thread on the first page and then caused three threads (this one and two other from the main page) all get marked unread on the main page. However, on the forums only this specific thread became unread, the other two didn't. Revisiting it opened the thread on the second page and didn't mark it as read. From then on, each revisit opened a new page. Upon opening the last one, all threads on the main page became read.
Visiting Interest Check: Mage 20 led to the exact effect as above with D&D, complete with the exact same three threads becoming unread on the main page.
However, Interest Check: Sentai & Sensibility (SWADE), the third of the threads which switch between read/unread as described above, doesn't cause similar problems. I believe that is because it only has one page, unlike the other two.
Finally, the last public thread on my main page, Hello - GM Looking to Play, causes no weird results whatsoever.
From all this, I'm starting to think that this is exclusively multi-page threads which cause weirdness. At least for myself. (Although Sentai one flipping because of the other two is kinda weird.)
Last edited July 19, 2025 9:49 am
